Isaac Vásquez Garcia hauled a hank of wool out of a steaming vat of red dye and grinned: “Bugs,” said the patriarch of a family of rug weavers in the small town of Teotitlán del Valle in southern ...

As weaving skills are evaporating in Finland, so is the ability to design rag rugs.

Moroccan carpets are prized for their beauty and can fetch hundreds of dollars in stores. But little of that money ends up in the hands of the women who spend months weaving the carpets. Rug weavers ...

The rug looked almost plain, a furry, off-white blotch in a room otherwise filled with richly colored pieces. The intricate patterns of the dozens of other rugs in the fall auction at the Smoki Museum ...